Reflective signs help first responders find your home

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Jan 9, 2018 at 12:01 AMJan 11, 2018 at 11:35 AM

By Greta Lint Special to The Courier-Tribune

CLIMAX — It’s 2 a.m. and your elderly father has fallen down and you cannot get him up. He is slithering through your arms. He cannot get his feet underneath himself to push up and help you. You feel stranded. You lay him down and call 9-1-1.

But, can emergency personnel find your house? Maybe not.

If your house and address are not well-marked, the fire truck and ambulance may pass right by.

“Providing medical services is 75 percent of what we do,” Climax Volunteer Fire Department Chief Gary McGee said. “We need to be able to see the house sign.”

So to help first responders, McGee is asking you to purchase a reflective address sign to put on your roadside mail box, at your driveway entrance or on your house. It doesn’t matter if you live in a wooded area, a farming community, in a neighborhood or in the city. Emergency people need signs they can see clearly.

Unlike previous reflective signs, the new signs provide a clearer definition of the house number. They come in red, green or blue.

Signs are $15 each. To order one, contact your local fire department.

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